Latest US Space News and Discoveries MAVEN Mission Launched to Mars. It was on November 18, 2013, that NASA sent the MAVEN ...

The bright multicolored lights of the aurora borealis have been spotted shining in the sky above Iowa City. This breathtaking phenomenon is usually reserved for areas closer to the Earth’s poles, but ...

Minnesotans and others around the country got a rare treat on Nov. 11 with an aurora borealis supercharged by the sun.

The northern lights, or aurora borealis, one of nature's most spectacular visual shows, can be elusive. Conventional wisdom ...

A powerful geomagnetic storm created a series of brilliant auroras recently for observers across North America.

An already gigantic hole in Earth’s natural force field has grown by nearly half the size of Europe in 10 years, according to ...

Increased solar activity causes auroras that dance around Earth’s poles, known as the northern lights, or aurora borealis, ...

The chair of physics and astronomy at MTSU, Ron Henderson, says that in the right conditions, when protons and electrons ...

A series of solar flares, essentially explosions on the surface of the sun, caused unusually bright and colorful displays of aurora borealis in Alaska and other northern latitudes on Tuesday ...

The northern lights can be seen in different colors, each color is based on the height and type of molecules hit by the charged sun electrons. The most common colors are green & yellow as the ...

The aurora borealis took over Alaska skies on Tuesday night, but this light show was different than the others.

After the aurora borealis lit up the Colorado sky in surreal swaths of color Tuesday night, there’s a chance stargazers in ...